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The information here is a summation of information on my property in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The property is a located in the foothills of the Huron Mountains. I have acquired this property along with the easements to it over the past 15 years, at times with much patience and effort. Often times people ask “Why do you own land in the UP?” or “How did you get such a nice holding?” The answers to these questions do not always make sense to people who have not walked in a remote forest and stumbled across a private lake, with tall trees and rock outcroppings. When you own a piece of land more than a square mile privacy is usually not a concern. You have to love the land to really pay for something that you may only visit a few times a year.

When you acquire a beautiful holding in the UP often times it is not only based on price, but what is more elusive is just finding a high quality piece for sale that meets your wants and dreams. Often times when someone acquires something they love, they cannot put a price on it. I have tried, but rarely does the math make sense. I often analyze it this way, which I think is rarely done. If I own 1 acre of land that I acquired for $2,178 per acre and 1 acre is 43,560 square feet. So if you take $2,178/43,560 sq ft = $.05 per sq ft, so basically if you measure a square foot of land you buy, it costs you 5 pennies. There is 9 square feet in a square yard, so that is 45 cents, take a bedroom 10 feet by 12 feet = $6 about the price of a Starbucks coffee. So often times when I walk on my property, I look at a bedroom size piece of land whether it is in a lake, contains a massive rock, or holds a 100′ foot tall pine, and I wonder how is this beauty so cheap? When I am walking on a mountain logging road and I think of the money I spent at a steak house then look ahead and think I could have owned the road way up to that crest of the hill.

With building prices around $200 per square feet for a home or a commercial property I often think which would I rather have? This square foot of a building or a 4000 square foot piece of beautiful land? You may have been sent to this page because you heard the land may be for sale, at times yes, at times no. Usually nice holdings are transferred through the three D’s, death/divorce/distress. Hopefully you are not contacting me during one of those times. That is how I acquired most of this holding, by being patient and often working with realtors/owners/timber companies. It is a work of love sometimes, when I get the tax bills I wonder if this is a good financial investment, what cures me every time is just going up to Marquette and walking the land, going to the local restaurants and hotels. The city is beautiful, has a great hospital, and a wonderful college. When visiting my land I always find something I never knew existed there before, even random plants I have never seen. Sometimes catching a fish in one of the private lakes, then cooking it over a fire, or standing on the edge of a small mountain and seeing for miles and miles. I am not an expert by any means of these beautiful areas, there are people who have grown up and spent their whole lives there, and still love the Upper Peninsula. My background in business has allowed me to travel the world, the only comparison to the natural beauty I have seen to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is perhaps Switzerland, Austria or the Muir woods in California. I personally prefer Michigan due to the number of small lakes and streams.